The late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman shines with one of his final
performances in A Most Wanted Man – a tension-packed story of
espionage and one of the most eagerly anticipated films of the year

Hamburg, the present. The city, where the 9/11 bombers lived and plotted, remains on high alert.

When Issa Karpov (Grigoriy Dobrygin) – a immigrant, identified by Interpol as a possible terror suspect – arrives and lays claim to his father’s ill-gotten fortune, he attracts the interest of a secretive anti-terror unit headed by Günter Bachmann (Philip Seymour Hoffman).

Working with the CIA and forming an uneasy alliance with spy Martha Sullivan (Robin Wright), Bachmann must uncover the truth about the man’s identity and his possible connections to high-level terrorists.

As the clock ticks down and the stakes rise, the race is on to establish this most wanted man’s true motives: is he an oppressed victim or a terrorist bent on destruction?

Based on the novel by the master of the spy genre, John le Carré, A Most Wanted Man is a gripping espionage thriller that prickles with tension right through to its last heart-stopping scene.

The film is directed by Anton Corbijn (Control; The American) and co-stars Rachel McAdams and Willem Dafoe.